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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2011
Applicant:
Narasimhan Venkatesh, Hyderabad, IN;
Inventor:
Narasimhan Venkatesh, Hyderabad, IN;
Assignee:
Redpine Signals, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/20 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/20 (2013.01);
Abstract
A wireless LAN station having a MAC address and receiving beacon frames indicating a beacon interval selects a sub-interval from the beacon interval for transmission and reception of wireless signals. The beacon sub-interval used by each set of stations for transmission and reception is preferably ½of the beacon interval, where n is the number of device-unique assignment bits, such as MAC address. Each station thereby self-assigns itself one of the sub-intervals as a segment for transmission and reception, thereby reducing collisions and re-transmissions in a congested access point.